Decision-making methodologies?

[preantepenultimate]

What is your general approach to deciding on which offer to accept?

[Tidus]

All of the above. Not successfully yet though I'll add.

[Vulpix]

I like the idea of this poll, and voted.  However, I did find it hard to categorize (as clear as the options were), because I feel like a lot of us go through some kind of systematic pro/con comparison at *some* point in our decision process, but then perhaps *ultimately* leave it up to a gut feeling.  I just chose my school after doing a lot of systematic comparisons and deciding that such data wasn't very helpful anyway.

[TakeruK]

I listed pros/cons but how much I weighed towards each pro/con was based on "gut feeling". Like for example, a "pro" might be "Weather in location is nice", but how much "nice" means and how much this factor mattered is based on instinct/gut feeling. That is, I didn't quantify it or give places a "weather rating" of 4/5 etc. I made the pros/cons list to help me see all the factors that mattered to my spouse and I (i.e. the systematic part) but then the decision itself was unsystematic (also there were two votes, one for my spouse and one for me, and we both agreed beforehand that it has to be unanimous).